July 18

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 18. From 1900 until now. July 18 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Nelson Mandela (1918), Vin Diesel (1967) and Priyanka Chopra (1982). Several movies were released around July 18 over the years, such as Cup Fever in 1965 directed by David Bracknell and Dersu Uzala in 1975 directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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2019 War in Afghanistan: Twelve people are killed and over 80 injured by two car bombs at a gate outside police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Reuters)
2018 Syrian Civil War: Siege of al-Fu'ah and Kafriya: The evacuations of Shia towns Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya in the northern Idlib Governorate begin, as part of a deal between rebel forces and the Syrian government. (Al Jazeera)
2017 Earthquakes in 2017: A 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, west of the Alaskan Aleutian Island of Attu, in the North Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damage; a tsunami warning was cancelled. (Reuters) (AP) (USGS)
2016 Yemeni Civil War : At least six Yemeni soldiers are killed in suicide bombings near the city of Al Mukalla. (Reuters)
2015 Persecution of Hazara people in Quetta: In a failed suicide blast, a security guard intercepted a suicide bomber clad in female clothing attempting to enter Quetta’s Hazara town, who then detonated their device that contained 6 to 7 kg (13 to 15 lb) of explosive material, killing themselves and the guard. (Dawn).
2014 2014 insurgency in Donbass:: US President Barack Obama says the United States has "increasing confidence" that the missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came from Russian separatists in Ukraine - and that Russia bears responsibility for the crisis. (New York Times)
2013 Eight Afghan labourers are killed on their way to work at a U.S. military base in Logar Province. (BBC)
2012 2012 Burgas bus bombing:
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 14 inmates are freed from a jail in Farah after a successful prison break led by the Taliban. (Aljazeera)
2009 Last surviving Battle of Jutland veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force Henry Allingham dies at the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world. (BBC) (AFP) (RTÉ)
2008 Warner Bros. Pictures releases the film The Dark Knight to theaters in the USA and Canada. The film sets a one-day US box office record, generating ticket sales of US$66.4 million on opening day. The opening weekend also sets a record, taking in US$155 million.
2007 At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurs, a pedestrian who goes into cardiac arrest.
2006 The ''SS Nomadic'', the last floating link to ''Titanic'', returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
2005 Eight former Serbian secret police officers, and supporters of Slobodan Milošević, have been found guilty of the murder of former President Ivan Stambolić and sentenced to between 15 and 40 years in prison. (BBC)
2004 The trial for the murder of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran ended abruptly on the second day of the proceedings. The lawyers of the Kazemi family insisted that the time has not been enough for proofs to be given, witnesses to be brought to court, and the murderer to be identified.
2003 U.S. Basketball: Eagle County, Colorado District Attorney Mark Hurlbert announces that Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has been charged with one count of felony sexual assault, stemming from a June 30 incident at a gated resort involving a 19-year-old woman.
2002 Patents: Forgent Networks asserts that it owns and will enforce patent rights on the widely used JPEG image compression standard which is used widely on the World Wide Web. The announcement creates a furore remisicent of Unisys' attempts to assert its rights over the GIF image compression standard.
2001 In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore (see Howard Street Tunnel fire).
1996 Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 Army soldiers.
1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed
1993 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St. George
1992 Film critic Roger Ebert marries Chaz Hammel-Smith
1991 Mike Tyson meets Miss Black America contestants
1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
1988 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship
1987 Molly Yard elected new president of US National Organization for Women.
1986 115th British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 280 at Turnberry Scotld
1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco
1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1982 Blues in the Night closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 53 performances
1981 Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1980 Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France
1979 Gold hits record US$303.85 an ounce in London, England.
1978 Egyptian and Israeli officials begin two days of talks.
1977 Vietnam becomes member of UN
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1972 Egypt President Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1971 Eddy Merckx wins his 3rd Tour de France
1970 Boy Friend closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 119 performances
1969 Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL
1968 Intel incorporates.
1967 Silver hits record US$1.87 an ounce in New York.
1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open
1964 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn).
1963 Failed military coup in Syria
1962 Minn is 1st AL team to hit 2 grand slams in an inning as Bob Allison
1960 1st UN troops reach Congo
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1955 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
1954 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Inverness Four-Ball Golf Tournament
1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution.
1948 Marinka opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 168 performances
1947 British seize Exodus 1947 ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
1944 7:45 Operation-Goodwood: British assault east of Caen
1943 British assault on Catania Sicily
1942 First legal New Jersey horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens.
1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1938 Douglas Wrong Way Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left New York for California
1936 In Spanish Morocco, military rebels attempt a coup d'etat against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
1935 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
1932 US and Canada sign a treaty to develop Saint Lawrence Seaway.
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1930 SHO soccer team forms in Old Beijerland
1925 Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1921 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
1918 US and French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I.
1915 2nd Battle of Isonzo begins and ends with loss of 280,000 men
1914 US army air service first comes into being, in the Signal Corps.
1913 After 68 straight innings Christy Mathewson gives up a walk.
1912 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
1907 French troops occupy Casablanca
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Famous Birthday

Nelson Mandela: South African President, a civil rights...
Vin Diesel: American actor who came to Steven...
Priyanka Chopra: Movie Actress.
Mélissa Theuriau: French journalist and news anchor.
Richard Branson: British entrepreneur who is the founder...
Kristen Bell: American actress.
Wendy Williams: TV Show Host.
Hunter S Thompson: American journalist and author (Born...
Elsa Pataky: Spanish actress.
MIA (artist)
Chace Crawford: American actor.
Henri Salvador: French Caribbean singer.
Lee Taemin: South Korean singer, dancer and actor...
Maria Pacôme: French actress and playwright.
Madame Soleil
Soundarya
Elio di Rupo
Jean Yanne: French actor, director, producer, comic...
Elizabeth Gilbert: American author.
Titoff (humorist)
Ian Stewart: Scottish-British musician and rock star,...
Audrey Landers
James Brolin: American actor; the handsome 6'4" actor...
Lupe Vélez: Mexican-American actress and dancer (d....
Elizabeth McGovern: American actress.
Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
Steve Forbes: American publishing executive who...
Mélina Robert-Michon: French discus thrower.
Paul Verhoeven: Director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total...
Daron Malakian: American guitarist (System of a Down,...
John Glenn: American astronaut, one of the original...
Kelly Reilly: English actress.
La Grande Sophie
Eva Ionesco
Jack Layton: Canadian politician, leader of the New...
Nick Faldo: British golfer, 6' 3" winner of five...
René Dary
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: Russian writer, most popular...
Irène Tharin
Aaron Beck: American psychiatrist and academic.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins: American musician (Born 1929).
Thomas Kuhn: American physicist historian and...
Michiel Huisman: TV Actor.
Nathalie Sarraute: Russian-born French writer (Born 1900).
Red Skelton: American film, nightclub and...
Hopsin : Rapper.
Michael Erlewine: American astrologer and co-founder of...
Abdel-Kader Chékhémani
Valerie Cruz: American actress.
Ricky Skaggs: American Country-Western singer whose...
Alexander Morozevich: Russian chess player and author.
Robin MacDonald
Penny Hardaway: American basketball player, he became a...
Dick Button: American ice skating champion, the...
Prince Alexander of Belgium
Jerry Richardson: American sports team owner, the head of...
Darlene Conley: American actress (d. 2007).
Lee Arenberg: American actor and screenwriter.
Pierre Sabbagh: A major personality in French...
Springfield (Missouri)
Gino Bartali: Italian cyclist, nicknamed "Gino the...
Billy Norwich: American writer, a widely syndicated...
Cheryl Casone: American news anchor.
Hume Cronyn: Canadian-American actor producer and...
Michel Conil-Lacoste
Josepha Mendels: Dutch teacher, journalist, feminist...
Giacinto Facchetti
Bernard Pons: French physician and politician.
Andrei Gromyko: Belarusian-Russian economist and...
Luigi di Bella
Kenneth Armitage: English sculptor.
Bernard du Boucheron
Derek Anderson: American basketball player, a guard for...
Joe Torre: American athlete, pro baseball player...
Richard Mogey: American executive director of the...
Carl Fontana
Alexis Flores
Leandro Faggin: Italian cyclist, the winner of a gold...
Benjamin Vautier
Clifford Odets: US playwright (Golden Boy), dies at 57.
Dan O'Brien: American decathlete and coach.
Jared Hess: American film director and screenwriter.
Jan Gerhard Toonder
Simon Vinkenoog: Dutch poet, writer, journalist,...
James Norton (actor)
Oscar Heisserer: Italy sport Champion.
Dianne McIntyre: American dancer and choreographer.
Kathrin Hoelzl
David-Xavier Weiss
Frank Farian: German songwriter and producer.
Jean-Claude Massoulier
Heinz Bennent
Tenley Albright: Boston, Massachusetts -- Figure skater...
Grant Bowler: New Zealand-Australian actor.
Cathy Shim
Jim Bob Duggar: Arkansas politician and patriarch of the...
Molly Culver
Lori Alan: American actress.
Mexico City (Mexico)
Dion DiMucci: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
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James Oliver Huberty: Shot by police after killing 21 in...
Fabio Casartelli: Italian athlete, an Olympic Gold Medal...
Gerry Boulet: Canadian musician, a song-writer and...
Jean Negulesco: Craiova, Romania -- Director (Johnny...
Georges Dargaud: French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies...
Eugene Shoemaker: American astrogeologist and U.S.
Lionel Daunais: French-Canadian singer and composer...
Kit Guard: Dies of cancer at 67.
Jack Earle: American actor and sideshow performer...
Nico : German actress, singer and organist, a...
John Beck: Chicago, Illinois -- Actor (Mark-Dallas,...
Jill Balcon: British actress (Born 1925).
William Westmoreland: Saxon, South Carolina -- Army General...
Vladimir M Kirshon: Russian playwright, executed at 35.
Witold Maliszewski: Composer, dies at 65.
Dionyssios Lavrangas: Composer, dies at 80.
George A Hartland: English MP (Norwich 1931-35), dies at...
Carl Clinton Van Doren: US literary (The Nation), dies at 64.
Willem J A Kerncamp: Dutch overseas minister (Islam & Woman),...
Henry Farman: French aviation pioneer (double decker),...
John Gobau: Flem / Dutch actor (Death of Business...
Shalva Mikhailovich Taktakishvili: Composer, dies at 64.
German Germanovich Galinin: Composer, dies at 44.
Barbara Pepper: Actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres), dies...
Federico Ghisi: Composer, dies at 74.
Stanley Rous: British soccer official, dies at 91.
Viktor Louis: Russian journalist.
Gilberto Freye: Brazilian sociologist / writer, dies at...
Jan Pelleboer: Dutch meteorologist.
Mollie Parnis: Fashion designer (Mamie Eisenhower).
Rudolf Ising: Cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie...
Robert Davis: Dies of emphysema at 76.
Sergei Y Vozovikov: Russian major / Cosmonaut, dies in...
Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin: Chief designer of Soviet launch pads.
Hans Fellner: Bookseller, dies at 71.
Paul Saintenoy: Belgian architect (Born 1862).
Shahnawaz Bhutto: son of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Born 1958).
Yoon Boseon: President of South Korea (Born 1897).
James Hatfield: American author (Born 1958).
Victor Emery: British theoretical physicist (Born...
Paul Foot: British journalist (Born 1937).
Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan: prompting California to pass America's...
Benjamin C Truman: American journalist and author (Born...
Grand Duchess: Elizabeth Fyodorovna (Born 1864).
Queen Marie: of Romania (Born 1875).
Louis Nazaire Begin: Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop...
Herman Gummerus: Finnish historian and politician (Born...
Vitezslav Novak: Czech composer (Born 1870).
Joly Braga Santos: Portuguese composer and conductor (Born...
Srinagarindra: Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of...
Eugene Merle Shoemaker: American astronomer (Born 1928).
Emile Peynaud: French oenologist (Born 1912).
George Caiazzo: American professional wrestler (Born...
Jerry Hadley: American opera singer, (Born 1952).
Kenji Miyamoto: Japanese politician (Born 1908).
Johnny Wayne: Canadian comedian (Born 1918).
Marika Nezer: Greek actress (Born 1906).
Corneille Heymans: Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize...
Donnie Moore: Pitcher (Angels), shoots himself at 35.
Khosrow Shakibai: Iranian actor (Born 1944).
Bill Hicke: Canadian ice hockey player coach and...
Henry Allingham: British supercentenarian and World War I...
Karl Menninger: psychatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at...
Fabio Taglioni: Italian motorcycle designer and engineer...
Bobby Fuller: American singer-songwriter and guitarist...
Jack Hawkins: Actor (Ben Hur, Ben-Four Just Men), dies...
Alfredo Carlo Piatti: Composer, dies at 79.
Machine Gun Kelly: American gangster (Born 1895).
Jaime Nuno: Composer, dies at 83.
George William Louis Marshall-Hall: Composer, dies at 53.
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